- William Tate (painter)
William Tate (c.
1747 -2 June 1806 ) was an English portrait painter. He was born in 1747 probably inDarton near Barnsley [Polehapton Hugh, Glass, 'Coal and a Square Piano: The Thorp family of Gawber Hall' in "Moving Lives - Stories of Barnsley Families."] He was educated atWoolton nearLiverpool where his brother Richard Tate lived and hadJoseph Wright of Derby as his lodger in 1769. William Tate soon after became a pupil of Wright. [Graham-Vernon Deborah, "William Tate Portrait Painter" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (retrieved 2008)]It was with Joseph Wright in 1772 that William Tate first exhibited at the
Society of Artists in London where he became a fellow. Over the next twenty years Tate exhibited in Manchester (1773), Liverpool (1774-1776) and London (1778-1787) at theRoyal Academy of Art. [Graham-Vernon Deborah, "William Tate Portrait Painter" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (retrieved 2008)] In 1787 William Tate moved toManchester where he stayed before moving toBath in 1804 where he died in 1806.The
Walker Art Gallery has a number of William Tate's portraits of notable men and women of the day including Daniel Daulby, and the sister ofWilliam Roscoe . There are also paintings of his nephew Thomas Moss Tate and his niece Elizabeth Williamson, wife of Joseph Williamson. [Graham-Vernon Deborah, "William Tate Portrait Painter" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (retrieved 2008)] [Polehapton Hugh, Glass, 'Coal and a Square Piano: The Thorp family of Gawber Hall' in "Moving Lives - Stories of Barnsley Families."]References, notes and sources
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.